The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 80

In the meantime the Roe came bounding in, and sister tied the rush cord once more to its collar, took the end in her hand, and so they left the little house in the forest together.

Who acts: Roe, sister, lips · What happens: come, bound, tie, take, leave · To what, where: meantime, rush cord, end, hand, little house, forest

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roe, sister, lips), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Roe	det
5	Roe	Roe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	bounding	bound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 came	xcomp
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 bounding	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tied	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tied	cc
11	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tied	nsubj
12	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cord	det
14	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cord	compound
15	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tied	obj
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 more	advmod
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 tied	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 collar	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 collar	nmod:poss
20	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tied	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 end	det
24	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 hand	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hand	nmod:poss
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 left	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 left	cc
30	so	so	ADV	_	32 left	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 left	nsubj
32	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 house	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 house	amod
35	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 left	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 forest	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 forest	det
38	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 left	obl
39	together	together	ADV	_	32 left	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Roe		the meantime		tree rules
2	bound	gerund	the Roe not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tie	past	sister	the rush cord		to hand's collar	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent cord=Patient to collar=Co-Patient
4	take	past	the Roe not said here	the end	roe's hand		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent end=Value in hand=Location
5	leave	past	lips = lip	the little house	the forest	together property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent house=Theme in forest=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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